Disintegrating the musical: Black performance and American musical film

Wearing and tearing the mask : Blacks on and in blackface, live

"Fool acts" : cinematic conjunctions of white blackface and Black performance

Indefinite talk : Blacks in blackface, filmed

Black folk sold : Hollywood's Black-cast musicals

"Aping" Hollywood : deformation and mastery in The Duke is tops and Swing!

Jammin' the blues : the sight of jazz, 1944

Coda : bamboozled?